Lyrics for El Scorcho as interpreted by oofus

El Scorcho Lyrics
Goddamn you half-Japanese girls
Do it to me every time
Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello
And I'm jello, baby
But you won't talk, won't look, won't think of me
I'm the epitome of Public Enemy
Why you wanna go and do me like that?
Come down on the street and dance with me
I'm a lot like you so please Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting
I think I'd be good for you and you'd be good for me
I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
You said you never heard of them
How cool is that??
So I went to your room and read your diary:
"watching Grunge leg-drop New-Jack trough presstable..."
and then my heart stopped:
"listening to Cio-Cio San fall in love all over again."
How stupid is it? I can't talk about it
I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart
How stupid is it? won't you gimme a minute
just come up to me and say "hello" to my heart
How stupid is it? For all I know you want me too
And maybe you just don't know what to do
Or maybe you're scared to say: "I'm falling for you"
I wish I could get my head out of the sand
'Cuz I think we'd make a good team
And you would keep my fingernails clean
But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize
'Cuz I can't even look in your eyes Without shakin', and I ain't fakin'
I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon

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weezergirl
01-05-2002

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i cant believe nobody has commented on this. this is one of my favorite weezer songs cause .. er.. part of it i really 'get' and its a good song.

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MercurySmile
01-08-2002

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Best weezer song! "I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon" how can you beat a line like that? Pinkerton is def not appreciated enough!


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DaMajishaN
01-12-2002

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well, Rivers has this thing for Japanese girls and this song's about how they don't like him

...more or less...

oh, and:

"watching Grunge leg-drop New-Jack trough presstable..."

that line is about ECW...ECW is a wrestling league back then and Grunge and New Jack are 2 wrestlers...I guess the girl Rivers is talkin about likes to watch wrestling then...

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weezerific:cutlery
01-12-2002

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i like this song a lot. the acoustic version is really cool. and it's one of the songs with a lot of Madame Butterfly inferences..besides Butterfly. Cio-Cio San is Madame Butterfly I believe...

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luna_nymph
01-15-2002

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finally a guy is able to come out and say that he is terrified of girls. Or at least that's what I got from this song. He knows that she might be the perfect girl for him and that she might like him too. But that doesnt make it any easier for him to approach her.

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ramblingfool
01-20-2002

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i love this song...lyrics, music, everything. "shred the cello" is a great phrase. after hearing the more emotional weezer songs, like this one, it's hard to be satisfied with some of the more impersonal stuff they've done.

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weerez
01-22-2002

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This is the song of my useless, pathetic teenage life.

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selfwilledfate
01-28-2002

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I like this song because it uses some neat techniques to express lust, love, confusion, and lack of communication. I appreciate their ability to leave all the cliche styles in the dust, and still sing about something that everyone can relate to. This song has been close to me from the first week that pinkerton came out. Spread the word.


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gcwzr18
02-06-2002

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El Scorcho is by far one of the best weezer songs out there, Pinkerton is completely under rated. Rivers has a way with words, and he proves yet again with a new look at the pitfalls of falling in love

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maybethebest
03-06-2002

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I absolutly love this song....isnt cio-cio san a reeeeallllly awesome band too?????? Pinkerton is my favorate album by them..

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chompy
04-13-2002

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cio-cio san did madame butterfly, asshole. I mean, after puccini wrote it.

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emopunkskaface
04-17-2002

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hahaha this is the best song in the world. i am so sad they don't play it live!

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pumpkingirl
04-17-2002

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man, this is such an awesome tune. almost forgot about it. i heard he wrote this song about the lead singer of lush (if anyone remembers them). but anyways, weezer friggin' rocks

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whataweirdo
04-18-2002

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Yeah, for some reason this song reminded me of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, just because its so random even though it doesnt sound like it. My favorite part is that it sounds like Rivers is singing more against the guitar part than with it, making the song sound confused and leaves you focusing more on the song as a whole than on just one particular section.

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emo_SavestheDay
04-25-2002

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Yeh, great song... and cio-cio san is madame butterfly i think.

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greenplastic
04-28-2002

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this song is all i have listened to for the past few weeks in the hope that i'd ask this girl i know to a greenday concert or something.. but shit, it wasn't enough, and she went out with someone else.

and seriously, for all i know she wanted me too. shit, i am such an asshole.

and by the way..

"This is the song of my useless, pathetic teenage life."

.. there is no better way to describe this song. THE best song EVER.

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dragon_eyed
05-01-2002

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"i'm a lot like you so please, hello, i'm here, and i'm waiting, i think i'd be good for you and you'd be good for me"

my boyfriend used that line to hit on me. how sweet.

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Stacey1417
05-02-2002

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It means he likes a girl and doesn't know how to say it. Cause and point: "how stupid is it I can't talk about it I gotta sing about it". He is obviously clueless how to tell her. Just like I'm clueless how to tell this guy in my webmastering class that I like him. He's got a girlfriend, but I burned him a copy of Pinkerton and told him track 7 rocks. Hopefully he got the hint. Or reads this whatever. At anyrate he has killer green eyes.

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Punk_princess
05-08-2002

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i agree with stacey...hes sayin he doesnt kno how to tell the girl that he likes her. i like this song a lot!


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chappy
05-08-2002

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any song that stars off with gargling has got to be awesome, especially by Weezer. this is a great song and is put together very well to disguise it's enuendo. it is closely linked to M. Butterfly, hell, the generals name in the play is Pinkerton guys, read something now and then. The lines about addictiion are very clever too; "I wish I could get my head our of the sand... and you could keep my fingernails clean." Later

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craigg
05-08-2002

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this is probabaly my most favourite of all weezer songs but i still love all of em .



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weezerific:cutlery
05-08-2002

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i'm with you on that one, chappy. the gargling rules.

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DaDreadlockChick
05-12-2002

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A love song with a Weezer twist! Rivers is so badass! But why did they name the song El Scorcho??????

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Doldrum
05-14-2002

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This is def one of my favorite weezer songs, hands down. Madame butterfly is an opera, cio cio san is the girl in it and captain pinkerton is the guy in it

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just_a_maladroit
05-14-2002

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well i think this is conveying river's frustration about how simple relationships should be, but how complicated they turn out. the "how stupid is it...." bit shows this cleary, and as most of these bits in weezer songs (egh "dear daddy...." in say it ain't so, they convey the complicated feelings as simple as possible. at one point he is even shouting "for all i know you want me to" which is a very frustrating thought. and the obviouse referances to maddame butterfly back up this pain and frustration

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